What makes the monarch butterfly particularly interesting, however, is its migration pattern. Every year, these resilient insects fly thousands of miles from their breeding grounds in Canada down to ...

The Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster and the Government of Mexico are joining forces to protect one of North America’s greatest migration spectacles: the migration of the monarch butterfly.

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record ... along California’s coastline and Baja California, Mexico, where the Western monarch population gathers to ...

with more butterflies arriving this year than last, according to the caretakers of their main habitat in Mexico. Michoacán is home to the world-famous Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve ...

Fewer-than-usual monarch butterflies migrated through San Luis Obispo County this winter, according to data from the conservation-focused nonprofit the Xerces Society. “It feels like a punch to ...

Colonies of monarch butterflies occupied only 2.2 acres of forest at overwintering grounds in Mexico, according to Wayne Thogmartin. He’s a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey at ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. – On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly Count and recorded the second lowest ...

The annual Western Monarch Count observed a peak population of 9,119 Monarch butterflies in California this winter, marking a sharp decline in the last few years. The count, administered by the ...

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Monarch butterflies return to California for the ... and how some live at overwinter sites in central Mexico and California. Each fall both the eastern and western monarchs in the U.S. start ...

“This small, small insect can migrate from here, Wisconsin and Minnesota, all the way down to Mexico, a place where they’ve never been, just their great, great grandparents were there,” Nordstrom said ...